Homeownership Day 1
TweetScrubbed the garage with bleach. Scrubbed the fridge with bleach. A lot more work than it sounds.
Archive | July, 2009
Moved my email directly to Google
TweetFor a few years I’ve been funneling my various inboxes directly to my Gmail account. The massive storage, great web UI, and spam filtering made it a no-brainer. I’d basically been relying on a .forward file to do this until a couple of days ago when I signed up with Google Apps for evanhoffman.com, changed [...]
I can't believe so many people buy homes
TweetAfter seeing what the process is like firsthand, I can’t believe anybody would do this voluntarily. I guess I said the same thing about having a kid. Oyyyyyyyyyy.
Windows 7 RC – day 1
TweetSo I’ve been having problems with my computer since I built it. In particular the screen will freeze up from time to time with this checkerboard of black and normal. I can’t really describe it, and since the computer’s frozen when it happens, I can’t screenshot it. Anyway, I reinstalled XP a while ago and [...]
Long Island High School rankings
TweetFound this on a message board here:
I may never buy a Windows computer again
TweetI guess it’s not really a fair comparison since I’m running 32-bit Windows XP, but it strikes me as mildly retarded how much better my stupid $350 Mac Mini performs than my ~$1000 desktop. The Mac has a Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz CPU with 1 gig ram and an 80 gig HD, running 10.5.6 [...]
VMWare rules
TweetI love VMWare. I’ve been using it for less than a year but it’s easily one of my favorite products. I upgraded my ESX 3.5 cluster to 4.0 a little over a week ago and it was a pretty simple procedure – the vCenter server pushes out the new ISO to the ESX server, installs [...]
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